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reagan and john f. kennedy also used. later, khan worked for the george w. bush administration. like all white house staffers, he had to obtain a top-level security clearance and swear his loyalty to the constitution. >> just days after 9/11, there was a report on fox news that a muslim man in the white house was tied to al qaeda. and of course when i first heard that story i began to and now it seems funny wonder who that could be? and i thought i knew all the staff in the white house, and i was wondering who is this mysterious person who has ties to al-khaida. and of course i soon learnt they were referring to me. >> the bush administration re- affirmed its support for khan and said he had no contacts to extremists. fox news got its facts wrong. fox withdrew the story, but other media outlets picked it up. some have pursued it and khan to this day. >> they don't want muslims to have any political voice in this country. so again somebody like myself serving in government, serving in sensitive positions
reagan and john f. kennedy also used. later, khan worked for the george w. bush administration. like all white house staffers, he had to obtain a top-level security clearance and swear his loyalty to the constitution. >> just days after 9/11, there was a report on fox news that a muslim man in the white house was tied to al qaeda. and of course when i first heard that story i began to and now it seems funny wonder who that could be? and i thought i knew all the staff in the white house,...
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president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of america's border with mexico and immigration policy. i know my words will be distorted by those who disagree. my opponents have already painted me as hardest and and compassionate. they are wrong. my record, my life, how long the critics are. it has nothing to do with skin color, nothing to do with extremism. instead it is rooted in freedom. it shares the spirit of our founding fathers request to form a more perfect union leaders will establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of l
president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of...
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ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with those comments, including former minnesota governor and current vice presidential contender, tim pawlenty, who called mitt romney reagan-esque this morning on "morning joe." >> you know, we just nominated mitt romney, or presumptively nominated mitt romney, who is in the reagan tradition. a conservative with a conservative record, governed effectively in a blue state, working across the aisle. somebody who's produced results. so to look at that and just say, you know, the party wouldn't be capable of endorsing a ronald reagan-type figure today, i think mitt romney is a ronald reagan-type figure. >> last night, fox news's
ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with those comments, including...
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protected what ronald reagan called the shining city on the hill. the middle east is undergoing an historic shift. the iranian quest for nuclear weapons is perhaps the gravest threat to the global order we have seen since the collapse of communism. as populism realigns the muslim world, the lines between sects of islam are sharpening. have foughtshias for centuries and iran, the most political exporter of terrorism, wants to probe nuclear weapons into that mix. people often ask, would iran dare to use nuclear weapons? i ask you -- can we afford to believe they will not? can we afford to believe that china, which just this month announced a 12% increase in military spending, will allow our pacific allies to live in peace? ronald reagan master the art of keeping this nation out of hostilities. today, we tend to forget that we are a nation at war. though the mission is in a far off land and in an unfamiliar culture, we also forget the sacrifices of a generation. , our new greatest generation, that have kept us say since the september 11 attacks. califo
protected what ronald reagan called the shining city on the hill. the middle east is undergoing an historic shift. the iranian quest for nuclear weapons is perhaps the gravest threat to the global order we have seen since the collapse of communism. as populism realigns the muslim world, the lines between sects of islam are sharpening. have foughtshias for centuries and iran, the most political exporter of terrorism, wants to probe nuclear weapons into that mix. people often ask, would iran dare...
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reagan the name national airport in washington after ronald reagan he was truth into this kind of like onyx figure this hero and it was very important for the republicans that they in effect they wanted their version of john kennedy and they and they used ronald reagan to sort of build their entire brand if you will so i think that was that was a factor that people came away in the conventional wisdom was that ronald reagan was a nice guy trying to do the right thing. the evidence may not match that but that's the that's the sort of the hangover of this period that's what people think that's the conventional wisdom so i think given that there's been a desire to sort of shove aside some of the unpleasant history about ronald reagan and just look at the good son all right very interesting robert thank you so much for coming on the show that was robert perry and desiccated journalist arkansas already and news dot com with her now to the crisis in syria where there is seemingly no end in sight it seems western media outlets are racing to blame placed the blame on damascus for the bloodshed
reagan the name national airport in washington after ronald reagan he was truth into this kind of like onyx figure this hero and it was very important for the republicans that they in effect they wanted their version of john kennedy and they and they used ronald reagan to sort of build their entire brand if you will so i think that was that was a factor that people came away in the conventional wisdom was that ronald reagan was a nice guy trying to do the right thing. the evidence may not match...
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ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with there's another way to help erase litter box odor. purina tidy cats. only tidy cats has new odor erasers... making it easy to keep things at home... just the way you want them. new tidy cats with odor erasers. if you made a list of countries from around the world... ...with the best math scores. ...the united states would be on that list. in 25th place. let's raise academic standards across the nation. let's get back to the head of the class. let's solve this. and he didn't stop for three days and nights as he escaped life as a child soldier. twenty years later, he was still running, he just had a different thing driving
ronald reagan, country came first, not elections. >> in the spotlight tonight, romney as reagan. earlier this week, jeb bush questioned whether either his father, george h.w. bush, or ronald reagan, could get the republican presidential nomination today, saying, back to my dad's time and ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support. reagan would be criticized for doing the things that he did. some republicans took issue with there's another way to...
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reagan the name national airport in washington after ronald reagan he was turned into this kind of iconic figure this hero and it was very important for the republicans that in effect they wanted their version of john kennedy and they use ronald reagan to sort of build their own fire brand if you will so i think that was that was a factor that people came away and conventional wisdom was that ronald reagan was a nice guy trying to do the right thing. the evidence may not match that but that's the that's the sort of the hangover of this period that's what people think that's the conventional wisdom so i think given that there's been a desire to sort of show his side some of the unpleasant history about ronald reagan and just look at the good side. very interesting robert thank you so much for coming on the show that was of robert parry investigative journalist for consorting animals dot com. also ahead of our tale what strippers tampa and mitt romney happened comment i'll tell you in a moment. the talk of american power continues. things are so bad. might actually be time revolution. and i
reagan the name national airport in washington after ronald reagan he was turned into this kind of iconic figure this hero and it was very important for the republicans that in effect they wanted their version of john kennedy and they use ronald reagan to sort of build their own fire brand if you will so i think that was that was a factor that people came away and conventional wisdom was that ronald reagan was a nice guy trying to do the right thing. the evidence may not match that but that's...
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so the letters show many, many things about ronald reagan. one of the important ones that comes through to me is his instinct for the human being. human freedom was one of the great motivating beliefs that ronald reagan had. and let me just tell a story that illustrates this side of it. maybe many of you are not aware that the first deal ronald reagan did with the soviet union was a human rights deal. it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had rushed into our embassy during the carter administration . and you couldn't expel them because you knew what the soviets would do to them. and so they were sitting there and they were kind of a symbol of what's wrong with that system . and with me as kind of a midwife, i helped to arrange a meeting of the ambassador with president reagan. and it was a result of a dinner that you invited my wife and i to over in the white house one snowy evening. it was so snowy that the reagans couldn't get a chopper to take them to camp david. they couldn't get a car to t
so the letters show many, many things about ronald reagan. one of the important ones that comes through to me is his instinct for the human being. human freedom was one of the great motivating beliefs that ronald reagan had. and let me just tell a story that illustrates this side of it. maybe many of you are not aware that the first deal ronald reagan did with the soviet union was a human rights deal. it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had...
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ronald reagan, remember, was governor of california, his second term. he started his career when he was 55, his first public office. a second term in california, he wanted to lead in more conservative legacy. he thought, let me pass an amendment to the california state constitution to cut state income taxes significantly and permanently. he campaigned all over the state. he was pretty popular, and he thought he would win. he lost pretty badly. californians said, no, we don't want to cut our state income taxes. we are voting against this because we believe in the things demint does. in fact, california had a great education system from primary school for university. they had a great highway system. they believe in government. then came that catastrophe was talking about, confusion and panic. five years later we get the famous proposition 13 to cut property taxes significantly. property taxes that pay for education by constitutional amendment. in those five years america changed. californians overwhelmingly voted to cut their property taxes. and a tax rev
ronald reagan, remember, was governor of california, his second term. he started his career when he was 55, his first public office. a second term in california, he wanted to lead in more conservative legacy. he thought, let me pass an amendment to the california state constitution to cut state income taxes significantly and permanently. he campaigned all over the state. he was pretty popular, and he thought he would win. he lost pretty badly. californians said, no, we don't want to cut our...
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sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the killing of children and women in newtown, connecticut. newt gingrich doesn't blame the easy availability of assault weapons in this country for the murder of 26 at the sandy hook elementary school. he blames this. >> an anti-religious secular bureaucracy, and secular judiciary, seeking to drive god out of public life. >> newt gingrich was one of the members of congress who received that letter in 1994 co-signed by president reagan, asking him to vote yes on a ban on the domestic
sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the...
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but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me and bobby have -- it's nice to have those people cto the dinners. w compassionate. anyway, i endedup in h kitchen. i ate his dinner, tied to the secret service guy. it was raining. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. i once bought a counterfeit watch from times square. same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, he starred opposed a three-foot every chance named bonzo. i worked with bob dougla
but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me...
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mitt romney is not ronald reagan. what was striking is how many republicans were willing to say on the record that the comparison just doesn't cut the mustard. those things you just mentioned. the economy is so much weaker, very different electorate. ronald reagan didn't have a tough primary battle the way that mitt romney did. but the biggest difference between these two elections is that the country was so different then. the south was still considered democratic. it was only beginning to trend republican. so the week before the election, you had ronald reagan c campaigning in new york city trying to win new york. jimmy carter was campaigning in texas, unimaginable today. it was a very different map, and that's one of the reasons that it's so hard for romney to win this election. what's amazing is we've seen republicans make this ronald reagan comparison before. about four years ago when john mccain fell in the polls, his people also trying to draw that comparison. >> to your point, let me put up the screen on the r
mitt romney is not ronald reagan. what was striking is how many republicans were willing to say on the record that the comparison just doesn't cut the mustard. those things you just mentioned. the economy is so much weaker, very different electorate. ronald reagan didn't have a tough primary battle the way that mitt romney did. but the biggest difference between these two elections is that the country was so different then. the south was still considered democratic. it was only beginning to...
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that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to save this program. so we these to invite those democrats into our coalition, work with them so we can fix this country's problems not by cramming our vision of saving the country down their throat like they did, but by bringing the country together. tax reform and medicare reform, perfect examples, two of the biggest ideas that we have to do, and there are plenty of democrats who agree with what we're saying. so what we need to do is win, be magnanimous and include them in a coalition just like ronald reagan and tip o'neill did, and i think that's the secret to success. that's not the kind of democrats you have right now running congress or in the white house. but they do exist be, and so we need to invite them into the coalition. [applause] >> kind of a specific question here regarding
that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to save this program. so we these to invite those democrats into our coalition, work with them so we can fix this country's problems not by cramming our vision of saving the country down their throat like they did, but by bringing the country together. tax...
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bush's campaign manager against ronald reagan in the fight for the nomination in 1980, and yet ronald reagan asked me to be his white house chief of staff. somebody explain that to me. [ laughter ] and we were sitting in the white house just reflecting on a lot of these events. i said, you know, mr. president, if president ford had asked you to come on the ticket with him in 1976, it's my opinion he would have been elected. we would have won that election, 10,000 votes would not have been a problem. and you might never have been president. and he said that's probably right. he said but i will tell you this, jim. if the president had asked me to take that position, i would have felt duty-bound to do it. now, that's not totally consistent with what the reagan campaign told the ford campaign in 1976 when we said let's have a unity meeting, and the reagan campaign said we'll have a unity meeting provided you won't ask governor reagan to be on the ticket. and we said okay, because president ford didn't want to ask him to be on the ticket. and reagan didn't want to be on the ticket. [ laugh
bush's campaign manager against ronald reagan in the fight for the nomination in 1980, and yet ronald reagan asked me to be his white house chief of staff. somebody explain that to me. [ laughter ] and we were sitting in the white house just reflecting on a lot of these events. i said, you know, mr. president, if president ford had asked you to come on the ticket with him in 1976, it's my opinion he would have been elected. we would have won that election, 10,000 votes would not have been a...
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reagan had to say in one nine hundred sixty four in support variable. this is the issue in this election whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution in best that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for as better than we can plan them ourselves and so by the ninety's in one hundred seventy one lewis powell wrote a memo to his neighbor and the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce saying that business is under attack and needs to fight back this fall of the publication of rachel carlson's carson's silent spring and ralph nader's unsafe at any speed these were really attacks on business i mean paul was characterizing it that way but what it was was an attack on the willingness of businesses to put profits above human lives whether it was pesticides poisonous pesticides or exploding cars all of this stuff was being revealed of the media to the public via the media by people like carson and nader and lewis powell and ronald reagan were freaked out about it so pal
reagan had to say in one nine hundred sixty four in support variable. this is the issue in this election whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution in best that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for as better than we can plan them ourselves and so by the ninety's in one hundred seventy one lewis powell wrote a memo to his neighbor and the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce saying that business...
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because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they get a big dose of politics. they don't have tools to look up presidents. maybe there are a few books on other presidents and i the hot i would start a trend. i selected reagan because he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy because of his childhood and his life. i like to write about movie stars but i have met to every president since kennedy, i was a reporter in washington 10 years. amid johnson, nixon, and ford when he was in the house. i met to carter coming into new york, i came and on sunday night and stoppe
because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they...
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who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people come to these dinners. how compassionate. anyway i ended up in the kitchen. i ate his dinner and talk to the secret service guy, played the piano. remember her? don't worry. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. via once bought a counterfeit watch in times square. the same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, i opposed a three-foot hairy chimp made bonzo. i worked with -- no, no, no. that was cheap. that was cheap.
who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people...
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and ronald reagan went ahead and did it anyway. and since it was illegal and he couldn't get the money from congress to do it, in order to fund this illegal thing he wanted to do, he sold weapons to iran, seriously. and yeah, this was after the hostage crisis. this was at a time when it was very clearly illegal to sell weapons to iran. illegal. very obviously. it's not like we weren't paying attention to iran at the time o there was some loophole or something. it was blatantly, flagrantly illegal. where reagan got the money from and also what he did with the money, illegal. he broke the law overtly and on purpose. and these were huge, international, world-changing crimes. this was not putting a bug in the office of the democratic party chairman's office, right? this was not stealing somebody's psychiatric records, like watergate was, right? this was missiles to iran, that really did get delivered in order to fund the breaking of another law in central america. and when reagan got caught, as he inevitably had to, the reagan administ
and ronald reagan went ahead and did it anyway. and since it was illegal and he couldn't get the money from congress to do it, in order to fund this illegal thing he wanted to do, he sold weapons to iran, seriously. and yeah, this was after the hostage crisis. this was at a time when it was very clearly illegal to sell weapons to iran. illegal. very obviously. it's not like we weren't paying attention to iran at the time o there was some loophole or something. it was blatantly, flagrantly...
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reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan -- provided information about fellow actors and his opponents and the screen actors guild, and j. edgar hoover repaid those favors. here is one document here is one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there. >> i will summarize and then go to the pertinent part. this is a document from august 4th, 1947, and is a report on the fbi's investigation into hollywood. one of the areas the fbi was looking at was alleged communist infiltration of labor unions. one of the main unions is the screen actors guild, you can see here this is the index, and the scre
reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what...
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the way our beloved ronald reagan did during the cold war. the way harry truman stood up when the american people were war weary. that's the heritage and greatness of america that i think calls for american exceptionalism. everybody has called the 20th century the american century. i believe it's still possible for the 21st century to b
the way our beloved ronald reagan did during the cold war. the way harry truman stood up when the american people were war weary. that's the heritage and greatness of america that i think calls for american exceptionalism. everybody has called the 20th century the american century. i believe it's still possible for the 21st century to b
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ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school teachers and historians and public historians, i don't have to tell you about prohibition. and the federal government's great social experiment. what i did have to tell my fellow guys here, this was about the legacy of prohibition. >> brian, seems to me from what you're saying alcohol drives the expansion of the federal state. >> that's exactly right. and one can make a very good case for big government, so called, beginning not with the new deal but beginning with prohibition. for those of you who want to say sayonara, good riddance to big government, we got rid of prohibit
ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school...
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>> and a strong position, a lot stronger than ronald reagan was at this point in 1980 or bill clinton was in 1992, and both unseating sitting presidents of the united states. unemployment is about 8% or 9% depending what we get is. the european economic situation and the possibility of a greece leaving the euro and the european union sending storm clouds over. there is a lot of other uncertainty in the world. barack obama is the president. while he may not have caused these problems, he is somebody who gave people a lot of hope when he ran last time. now he is trying to play defense. mitt romney looks strong right now. >> how do you think the republican party machine will proceed to november? would be to attack the ground now as mayor romney proceeds? >> i would not say in those words. i will tell you i saw mitt romney speak at the latino coalition a few days ago. he spelled out a vision and spoke about improving education as the civil rights issue of our era. at this point he will be spelling out what he favors and where he differs from the sitting president. in other words, making a
>> and a strong position, a lot stronger than ronald reagan was at this point in 1980 or bill clinton was in 1992, and both unseating sitting presidents of the united states. unemployment is about 8% or 9% depending what we get is. the european economic situation and the possibility of a greece leaving the euro and the european union sending storm clouds over. there is a lot of other uncertainty in the world. barack obama is the president. while he may not have caused these problems, he...
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ronald reagan praised it for embodying the theme of making dreams come true. art cribs was there. >> reporter: inside the coliseum tonight the faithful came early. for $17.50 you could see or perhaps only hear springsteen from the last row at the top or down front with scott and cindy campbell. >> did you expect when you got your ticket to be right in the man's face? >> i hoped to be right in the man's face. >> there's something special, maybe magic about bruce springsteen. maybe it's just natural honest concern. >> he's one of the people, he's one of those rare caring people that transcends show business, very rare. >> it's been a long time since i've been to a concert. and he really move me, plus my wife dragged me down here. so it's time to let lose again. >> reporter: springsteen was part of a very successful we are the world album. with money and food going to the starving in ethiopia. here tonight he represents a spirit in the usa. >> ♪ >> my husband was a vietnam veteran, 100% disabled and it does. i'm proud to be an american. >>> there's neither a ge
ronald reagan praised it for embodying the theme of making dreams come true. art cribs was there. >> reporter: inside the coliseum tonight the faithful came early. for $17.50 you could see or perhaps only hear springsteen from the last row at the top or down front with scott and cindy campbell. >> did you expect when you got your ticket to be right in the man's face? >> i hoped to be right in the man's face. >> there's something special, maybe magic about bruce...
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he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we asked them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the program they felt was the best. people said why did you take it in the first place, why don't you leave it there. host: from virginia, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm just sitting here amazed and outraged by the assertions that the former secretary is making. number one, blaming the obama administration for the mess in the middle east, because of obama's polices, as i recall a year ago, condoleezza rice and the other members of the bush administration were tripping over one another to claim that they were the ones responsible for the arab uprising, th
he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we asked them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the...
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this is ronald reagan. thanks for listening. (end of excerpt) c-span: what was your reaction the first time you heard that? >> guest: oh, it was emotional. i've heard it ma--a few times now. we've played it to audiences as we've discussed our book in the last couple of months, and it's a--it's an emotional one, because you also see rea--reagan as a--his kind of emotional side. and it's authentic reagan. it's just who he is and how he thought, and it just, i think, gives a lot of credibility to the--the book, because you see him writing as he's talking. you see him thinking, looking out of a window, thinking about, you know, the fact that he has to write these things. he's really writing this as he's watching the cars, so i think it's wonderful. c-span: now did--did you go into this project with a certain idea of who ronald reagan was? and have you changed your mind? >> guest: i didn't, and so i didn't go in with a certain view. i think had i--had i had a s--fixed view of reagan, i don't know that i would have even asked for the
this is ronald reagan. thanks for listening. (end of excerpt) c-span: what was your reaction the first time you heard that? >> guest: oh, it was emotional. i've heard it ma--a few times now. we've played it to audiences as we've discussed our book in the last couple of months, and it's a--it's an emotional one, because you also see rea--reagan as a--his kind of emotional side. and it's authentic reagan. it's just who he is and how he thought, and it just, i think, gives a lot of...
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and this is why if ronald reagan is interesting. he goes to eureka college, tiny little place and if you study closely what you can see it's like harry truman who didn't finish college, only modern president didn't have a college degree, they both of their particular political the machinations or their own self education. in ronald reagan's defense case it is the years in hollywood and traveling around the country when he's reading of the early modern classics of the american conservative movement whitaker chambers witness, the economics and one was in his reading and the speeches, he's doing all of that on his island. i think it's possible but ronald reagan could have been ruined by the conventional ivy league education. and, so that would be the most interesting. harry truman read history from a very early age and one of the things he says, and i quote in my book, something like a person sits here at this desk in the oval office ought to know his american history. good for him. contrast sharply, i can't resist, contrast sharply wi
and this is why if ronald reagan is interesting. he goes to eureka college, tiny little place and if you study closely what you can see it's like harry truman who didn't finish college, only modern president didn't have a college degree, they both of their particular political the machinations or their own self education. in ronald reagan's defense case it is the years in hollywood and traveling around the country when he's reading of the early modern classics of the american conservative...
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i ink the other interesting comparison to ronald reagan is there's two ronald reagans. there was the ronald reagan who worked with democrats, who made tax reform a priority will you also raised taxes, who signed the deral law that ruire orpleny iat the e.r. ronald reagan worked across the aisle on a lot of things and then there's the ronald reagan we hear about only in the gop primary debates, a conserve ty ideologue at every turn. if you talk about the first reagan, obama has tried to follow that path, but he's had less cooperation on offer from the congress. he didn't -- >> chris, can i make t points s.nan k-- that reagan ended his first term with a higher misery index than obama currently has. reagan's recessionas also a fairly induced recession in order to wring inflation out of the economy, a it happenednd beon w. obama inherited a financial collapse recession which of their nature lasts longer, and it happened before he got there. thinthatelpslahe er. if you look at the gallup poll of approval of reagan and obama, you will see they're the closest of any two presid
i ink the other interesting comparison to ronald reagan is there's two ronald reagans. there was the ronald reagan who worked with democrats, who made tax reform a priority will you also raised taxes, who signed the deral law that ruire orpleny iat the e.r. ronald reagan worked across the aisle on a lot of things and then there's the ronald reagan we hear about only in the gop primary debates, a conserve ty ideologue at every turn. if you talk about the first reagan, obama has tried to follow...
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ronald reagan. didn't turn out that way. michael reagan is the late president's son and chairman of the reagan group. they didn't think your dad would win it was january 1980. jimmy carter 63% in the hypothetical matchup. and ronald reagan 32%. 63% to 32% and we know how that ended. are people counting out mitt romney, other candidates on the gop side a little too soon? >> what you in fact for wishing for with jimmy carder is wishing for ronald reagan in 1983. he was an actor, governor much california with hollywood, i can easily beat this guy and it was a landslide 50% to 40% in notch of that year. but you might also remember during that process we were going through a rough primary. four or five different candidates vying for the nomination. megyn: it sound familiar. four or five would-be nominees vying for the nomination. it turns out that the former president gerald ford told the "new york times" reporter every place i go, everything i hear there is a growing sentiment that governor reagan cannot win his election and the
ronald reagan. didn't turn out that way. michael reagan is the late president's son and chairman of the reagan group. they didn't think your dad would win it was january 1980. jimmy carter 63% in the hypothetical matchup. and ronald reagan 32%. 63% to 32% and we know how that ended. are people counting out mitt romney, other candidates on the gop side a little too soon? >> what you in fact for wishing for with jimmy carder is wishing for ronald reagan in 1983. he was an actor, governor...
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to get there you can do what ronald reagan and george washington did. they understood margaret thatcher's rules for stephen the argument then you win the vote. george washington denied that they were marching to climb on the votes in the snow storm had his officers greeted the opening pages of thomas kane's latest pamphlet which washington had asked him to write. he was the great pamphleteer with common sense and describe the declaration of independence and now it was turning out to be really hard. in july of 1776 had turned into a bitter and painful depressing and demoralizing series of defeats. when washington had the crisis which begins these are the times as washington said the first to win the argument then you in the war. people had to believe. i just came here tonight to say to you we have no reason to despair, no reason to back off, no reason to surrender but you have every reason to behave as americans. i look forward to questions. [applause] [applause] so, the speaker has been kind enough to give us a few minutes for questions and answers and
to get there you can do what ronald reagan and george washington did. they understood margaret thatcher's rules for stephen the argument then you win the vote. george washington denied that they were marching to climb on the votes in the snow storm had his officers greeted the opening pages of thomas kane's latest pamphlet which washington had asked him to write. he was the great pamphleteer with common sense and describe the declaration of independence and now it was turning out to be really...
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ronald reagan. his story is an american story. he was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. he was a mantra to his convictions. true to his man convictions. he knew who he was and where he wanted to go and how to get there. he believed in limited government, lower taxes, and strong national defense. he saw problems and acted swiftly to correct them. he will go down in history as one of our nation's greatest presidents and one of our world's greatest leaders. [applause] when i was coming of age, and he was a great inspiration to me than and still is today. when i first i running for governor, i tried to apply the same principles as well. i was applying to be the ceo of the wisconsin government. as part of the process, i reached out to people, young and old. i laid out a plan for the future. i said we faced an economical crisis. i told people what we would do. not long after being elected into office, we took action right away. a reporter visited me. he asked, why are you acting so quickly? mo
ronald reagan. his story is an american story. he was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. he was a mantra to his convictions. true to his man convictions. he knew who he was and where he wanted to go and how to get there. he believed in limited government, lower taxes, and strong national defense. he saw problems and acted swiftly to correct them. he will go down in history as one of our nation's greatest presidents and one of our world's greatest leaders. [applause] when i was coming...
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that's a lie it was later debunked ronald reagan never sat with a group of african-american teenagers who talked about the minimum wage hurting them and it in fact people tried to track down those people just like they tried to track down his famous welfare queen couldn't find it but he said it sincerely just like he talked sincerely when he took credit for creating workplace see the legislation as governor of california. we created an ocean an occupational safety and health agency for the protection of employees before the federal government had one in place and to this day not one of his decisions or rulings has ever been challenged so i think some of those charges are missing the point i suggest not true again osha was passed by democrats in california over ronald reagan's objections but rumor talk sincerely and people will believe it actually large parts of what was ocean california was set up long before ronald reagan it which any out sets up this claim made by reagan against the department of energy catch this. the department of energy is a multi-billion dollar budget in action
that's a lie it was later debunked ronald reagan never sat with a group of african-american teenagers who talked about the minimum wage hurting them and it in fact people tried to track down those people just like they tried to track down his famous welfare queen couldn't find it but he said it sincerely just like he talked sincerely when he took credit for creating workplace see the legislation as governor of california. we created an ocean an occupational safety and health agency for the...
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ronald reagan was the exemplar. he was the best vote getter. it was his lieutenant governor robert finch, and the only man familiar on politics reagan really respected i think. and i think reagan saw the need from -- after the goldwater defeat, that if republicans had to cooperate, and it to an affirmative conservatism that could some sof of the nation's problems. >> the reference was pretty terrible in the early 60s. it was reagan who posed this 11th kmanment. it tended to moderate the conversation and probably the philosophy a bit, too. >> al has a book coming out in the next couple of years on william buckley. >> thank you. >> okay. from new jersey originally. in jeff's book he attributes one of the causes of the moderates' demise to their inability or lack of interest in doing precinct work, organization ability. lee talks about conservatives taking over the party machinery, which they're relinquished. my question is and i looked back at that period, you had about a third of the senate called themselves moderate republicans and they had two
ronald reagan was the exemplar. he was the best vote getter. it was his lieutenant governor robert finch, and the only man familiar on politics reagan really respected i think. and i think reagan saw the need from -- after the goldwater defeat, that if republicans had to cooperate, and it to an affirmative conservatism that could some sof of the nation's problems. >> the reference was pretty terrible in the early 60s. it was reagan who posed this 11th kmanment. it tended to moderate the...
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reagan, having covered ronald reagan was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. not an informant, but an informer. how did that start, and maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> yeah. that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door or and told him that there were communists in some of the liberal groups that he was involved in. and as reagan wrote in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what the fbi documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan proceeded to become an active informer in hollywood, that he provided information about fellow actors and about his opponents in the screen actors guild and that in subsequent years j. edgar hoover repaid those favors by giving reagan personal and political help even though it was beyond the fbi's jurisdiction to do so. and here's one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there? >> no. >> can't read it? >> i'll summarize it and go to the pertinent part. this is from august 4, 1937
reagan, having covered ronald reagan was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. not an informant, but an informer. how did that start, and maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> yeah. that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door or and told him that there were communists in some of the liberal groups that he was involved in. and as reagan wrote in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my...
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." >> how about the story that ronald reagan was leading into the dining room and she suddenly halted, and he urged her to come on, and then no, she wouldn't. and he didn't speak french and her english wasn't very good or wasn't at all. finally, she pointed, he was stepping on her dress. he told that story, and then later, our chief of protocol told that story as if it happened to him, but we all know it happened to ronald reagan. >> i wrote it in my book because i did the same thing with the first lady of poland's dress, where i stood on her gown and kept trying to get her to move on. matter not to wear a train to the white house. >> you haven't asked this, but i think the most exciting -- i read you were going to ask us this, but i tried to think, i think the most touching day at the white house was the day
." >> how about the story that ronald reagan was leading into the dining room and she suddenly halted, and he urged her to come on, and then no, she wouldn't. and he didn't speak french and her english wasn't very good or wasn't at all. finally, she pointed, he was stepping on her dress. he told that story, and then later, our chief of protocol told that story as if it happened to him, but we all know it happened to ronald reagan. >> i wrote it in my book because i did the same...
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and about that. >>> ronald reagan who has ever called is not accused of being a socialist understood repeatedly that's when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal you have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. he did it multiple times. he did not get through republican primary today. i asked our political analyst about this. >>> idea of residents of bonn was really saying is the truth which is that all the republicans are looking for social conservatism in the fabric of somebody like ronald reagan the positions they're being forced to take in some of these seven states especially are so extreme that their positions are more than likely president reagan wouldn't taken all those years ago when he ran. >>> the republican race may not be officially decided for a while it may take from the until the california primary on june 5th to get the needed delegate count. elizabeth cook cbs five. >>> is a chance to lock in the shoes of a loved one with a degenerative disease. the tools used to give us a rare look inside the world's of someone with dementia
and about that. >>> ronald reagan who has ever called is not accused of being a socialist understood repeatedly that's when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal you have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. he did it multiple times. he did not get through republican primary today. i asked our political analyst about this. >>> idea of residents of bonn was really saying is the truth which is that all the republicans are looking for...
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ronald reagan. what is the problem that was so grave? what was bigger than the individual -- >> he didn't believe in using the federal government. so it must have been star wars. >> yeah, star wars. >> berlin wall. >> wrong, wrong, wrong. >> no? >> i'm convinced it will help state legislators to act in the national interest to save our children's lives by raising the drinking age to 21 across the country. >> this was about drunk driving. this was about alcohol. this was about something that i think most of us in this room think is a terrible thing, driving while drunk. but it's an example of how commonplace it became for the federal government to get involved in issues of health and safety in the 20th century. so much so, that even perhaps the strongest anti-big government president of the 20th century, well, there's some competition, but ronald reagan who defended the 10th amendment, who stood up for states' rights, said the federal government has to get involved when mothers against drunk drivers say that this is real trouble. and thos
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>> the wild-eyed socialist class hiking tax warrior was ronald reagan. he thought in american the wealthiest should pay their fair share. >> eric: whatever. i'll let rush tell it. >> they have revisionist history about the reagan years. all of it, what they need to move their agenda forward, when they need to marshall support for what they are trying to do, who do they invoke? lbj? no. teddy kennedy? no. j.f.k.? no. r.f.k.? no. bill clinton? no. they invoke ronald reagan. >> eric: revisionist history. exactly right, bob. reagan and obama are miles apart. the divide cannot be wide enough in the world. >> bob: that is in your view, and your view is a wide view anyway. the idea first of all, tarted by sag he compared himself to reagan. he did not. he did not compare himself to reagan. he was citing something that reagan said and reagan did say the things. it was crazy, the wealthy had as many tax loopholes they had and he was cutting taxes. he said one thing is wealthy should not get out from underneath the responsibility to pay taxes ala mitt romney. >> er
>> the wild-eyed socialist class hiking tax warrior was ronald reagan. he thought in american the wealthiest should pay their fair share. >> eric: whatever. i'll let rush tell it. >> they have revisionist history about the reagan years. all of it, what they need to move their agenda forward, when they need to marshall support for what they are trying to do, who do they invoke? lbj? no. teddy kennedy? no. j.f.k.? no. r.f.k.? no. bill clinton? no. they invoke ronald reagan....